Over the years, I’ve heard a lot about a supposed old girls’ network. You know what I mean by this: the old, white men who used to run industry are slowly being joined by a cadre of women who exert similar power.

Take this piece in the Washington Post, by Carrie Johnson, about just such a network in techology.

Here goes. I know, I’ve got to work on the whole centering-my-face in the screen thing. I should add that Ned Phelps, whom I just met, is a very entertaining guy. Not that I really captured that (or tried to) in the video. But here’s a little sample. George Soros has an opinion piece in today’s FT headlined “The worst market crisis in 60 …

Fortune, our sister magazine, just came out with its annual list of the 100 best companies to work for (check out its dazzling web treatment, then buy the Feb. 4 issue, you cheapskate). Google is its top employer, and yes, it’s like deja vu all over again: they ranked #1 last year, too.

As far as I’m concerned, humans have three walking speeds: fast, slow and tourist. There’s little that irritates me more on my morning commute through Times Square than getting stuck on a sidewalk behind a pack of Midwesterners who have decided against bipedal forward movement. Nothing against you folks from the middle states. I’m just …

That’s Becky Sharp of CNBC and Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, wishing a Swiss Army helicopter would stop buzzing them. I was supposed to go on a little later with Andrew Sorkin of the NYT, but we got bumped by stock market events in the U.S. I’m frantically trying to finish a piece for dead-tree Time at the moment. Will …

I feel I have a lot in common with Barack Obama. He’s half white and half other, like me. In fact, his half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, interviewed here in the New York Times Magazine, is my own racial mix: half white and half Asian. He’s the closest to me in age among all the candidates. He and I both spent a lot of time in Asia and Hawaii …

I really can’t think of a better place to spend a global financial semi-meltdown than in the cozy bar/cocktail lounge of the Parkhotel Silvretta in Klosters (a sweet little resort town just down the hill from bigger, less-charming Davos). Outside it’s snowing. Inside it’s warm, and I’m sitting in a comfy chair, partaking of an excellent …

So I’m here in Davos, and for no good reason other than that I want to seem like the very model of the modern multimedia journalist, I have just recorded my first ever CapitalistCast here in my hotel room. Here goes (and just so you know, I haven’t slept in 25 hours):